Metallic railway-tie.



W. H. PROOTOR.

METALLIC RAILWAY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.10,1918,

Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

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METALLIC RAILWAY-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

Application filed January 10, 1913. Serial No. 741,275.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. Paoc'ron, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ralston, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Metallic Railway-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in metallic railway ties.

In carrying out my invention it is my primary object to construct a railway tie which shall embody the desirable features of simplicity of construction, eheapness in manufacture, durability, and which furthermore, will be susceptible to only a remote degree of expansion and contract-ion due to climatic changes.

I also aim to provide a metallic tie which shall include a hollow box-like structure having its bottom and sides corrugated whereby the lateral movement of the tie, when the same is arranged within the roadbed, will be effectively overcome.

It is also my purpose to construct a metallic tie which shall embody a hollow bottom member having its sides flanged, the said flanges adapted to support the top of the tie, and the said top being provided with rail engaging ribs or ledges and being further provided with eye members for the reception of securing elements for the base flanges of the ties, the eyes being formed with depending straps which are connected with the sides of the tie.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a tie of this class which may have its body stamped from a single sheet of metal, and which also may have its top stamped from a single sheet of metal.

With the above recited objects in View, and others which will appear as the nature of the invention is more fully understood, the invention consists in the construction, combination and operative arrangement of parts set forth in the following description and falling within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tie showing the same supporting railway rails, Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view through the same, Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken approximately upon the line 33 of Fig. 2, Fig. 4: is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3, Fig. 5 is a top plan View, the rails being removed, Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the rail securing elements, Fig. 7 is a view of the blank from which the top for the tie is constructed, and Fig. 8 is a similar view of the blank from which the base of the tie is formed.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, the numeral 1 designates the improved tie in its entirety. The tie embodies essentially a base 2 and a top 3. The base is stamped from a blank of metal, and comprises a bottom 4, sides 5 and ends 6. The ends 6, it will be noted by reference to the drawings are of a less height than the sides 5, and the said sides have their ends inturned to pro vide angular flanges 7 which abut with the ends 6 and which are secured in any desired or preferred manner to the said ends. The bottom 4, as well as the sides 5 of the base 9. are corrugated transversely as indicated by the numerals 8, the projections and the intervcning channels formed by the corrugations providing effective means for preventing the lateral movement oi the lie after the said tie has been placed within the road-bed and the said road bed tamped around the tie. The sides 5 have their upper portions beyond their corrugations flanged outwardly, as indicated by the numerals 9 and 10. These flanges are arranged horizontally with respect to the remainder of the tie, and the said flanges at a suitable distance away from each of the ends 6 of the tie are formed with cut-away portions or depressions 11, the inner walls thus provided terminating with the sides 5 of the tie, and the purpose of this arrangement will presently be set forth.

The top 3 is of a length and width equal to that of the top of the tie including the flanges 9 and 10. The top is also formed from a single blank of suitable metal. The top has its longitudinal edges provided with cut-away portions 19 which are adapted to register with the depressions 11 of the horizontal flanges 9 and 10 of the base. The top 3, intermediate each pair of oppositely disposed depressions 12, is reinforced as at 13, and the outer edge of each of the reinforcements is upset or provided with a rib 14,

the said ribs serving as guide or abutment 7 flanges for the outer longitudinal edges of the base flanges of the rails R. The reinforcements 13 are of a greater width than the width of the base flanges of the rails, and these portions of the top 3 are extended a suitable distance beyond the inner edges provided by the depressions 12, and are bent upon themselves to provide eyes 15 and downwardly extending straps 16. The straps 16 are secured to the corrugated sides 5 of the base 2 through the medium of suitable retaining elements, such as rivets, nuts and bolts, or the like. The outer edges of the top 8 are provided with openings which register with similar openings in the flanges 9 and 10 of the base 2, the said openings being provided for the reception of suitable securing elements 17 and if desired the central portion or top may be also provided with one or more openings which form an air communication with the hollow bottom. The reinforced portions 13 are likewise pro vided with air openings 18 which communicate with the said bottom, and, as heretofore stated, the ends being of a lesser length than the length of the sides and their angular flanges 7 provide an airopening between the top 3 at the said ends, so that air will be free to circulate to within the tie, and thus materially lessen the tendency of the tie to expansion and contraction.

Arranged within each of the eyes 15 is a hook member 19, the same being formed with a threaded shank 20, and disposed upon the shank is a clip 21. The hook 19 is adapted to be engaged with one of the longitudinal edges of the base flanges of the rails R, and the clip 21 is provided with a lip whichis adapted to engage with the opposite longitudinal edges of. the said rails The clip may be sustained upon the shanks of the hooks through the medium of a nut 22, as illustrated upon the right hand side of Fig. 4 of the drawings, or the shanks of the hook be provided with an elongated opening 23 for the reception of a Wedge key 24. The wedge-key preferably has its end slitted, and is adapted to have the arms thus provided bent in opposite directions below the shank of the hook to securely retain the clip and the hook in engagement wit-h the base flange of the rail.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the simplicity of the device, as well as the advantages thereof, will it is thought, be perfectly apparent to those skilled in the art to which such inventions appertain without further detailed description.

The top of the tie may be, and preferably is, provided with a plurality of perforations so that moisture may flow from the top to the interior of the tie without settling thereon and so rusting and causing the top plate to disintegrate by the rust.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. A metallic tie for rails comprising a base, pressed from a single sheet of mate rial and including a corrugated bottom and sides, the ends of the base terminating below the sides, and a metallic top for the base.

2. In a metallic railway tie, a hollow base having a corrugated bottom and corrugated sides, ends for the base terminating below the upper edges of the sides, the said sides having their ends provided with angular flanges which connect with the ends and top plate secured to the base.

8. In a metallic railway tie, a base com- 7 prising a box-like structure having its ends disposed below its sides and its bottom and sides corrugated, the sides having their upper ends out-turned to provide horizontal flanges, and a top plate secured to the said flange.

4:. A railway tie embodying a base comprising a box-like structure and having its ends disposed below the upper edges of its sides, the bottom of the base as well as the sides thereof being corrugated, the upper edges of the sides being provided with horizontally disposed angular flanges, a top plate secured to the'flanges of the base,

said plate having spaced reinforced portions for the reception of the base flanges of the railway rails, and means connected with the top plate for securing the rails thereon. V

5. A metallic railroad tie including a base comprising a boX like structure having its bottom and sides corrugated and its sides formed with angular flanges at the upper edges of the said sides, the flanges adjacent the opposite ends of the base being formed with depressed portions which are arranged in opposite pairs, a top plate secured to the flanges of the base, said top plate having its edges cut awayrto correspond with the depressed portions of the flanges of the base, the top plate between the said depressions being provided with enlarged reinforced portions, the said portions having their outer edges upset to pro vide rail-engaging ribs, the saidreinforced portions extending within the depressions to provide eyes, and said eyes adapted for the reception of rail securing elements.

6. In a metallic railway tie, a box-like base having its ends arranged below its sides and its sides at the upper portions thereof out-turned to provide flanges, the

said flanges being depressed at a distance 7 away from the ends of the tie, a plate having cut away edges arranged upon the base and secured to the flanges thereof, said plate having rail-receiving reinforced por 13o ribs the reinforced portion extending to base, and the said eyes adapted for the reception of rail-securing elements.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. PROCTOR. WVitnesses:

)IIARLns W lLKINSON, J. 1*. Sonnnnnn.

tions which are disposed in the cut away portion and Which are arranged transversely of the plate, the outer edges of the reinforced portions being upset to provide within the depressions and being bent to provide eyes and belng bent to provide straps whlch are secured to the sides of the Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

